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timent, which, in general, characterise his magi sterial opinions. He said, it appeared . harsh to proseeute such a child, but really it was a charity to do so ; he was- certain there were some thout:an d of those little delinquents in London, whom it would be mercy to them to transport, and it would materially tend to the safety of the public." What? transport a child of eleven years of age, who was driven by the extreme of misery to steal a handkerchief; and that his first offence ! Is this the way to produce penitence and reformation ? Would the transferring such a boy limn the brick-fields, where he existed in a state of nature, to the interior of a convict ship, he likely to awaken in him a moral sense, or create in him a capacity of improvement ? And then, bow would such an application of the Criminal Code tend to the public security ? Let boys of eleven be trans ported l'or seven or fourteen years, an 1 they will return at eighteen or twenty-five years of age, in the vigour of' youth and the maturity of vice, to practice with more dangerous hardihood the criminal acts which the most depraved association and a sense of total self abasement will not fail to have confirmed. Here was ease rather for one of those numerous religious and charitable societies that undertake to apply the funds affbVded by the benevolent to the relief and improve merit 01 those who are surrounded by the perils of want and temptation. There is no country, and per haps never was a country, in which so much of private wealth was appropriated to charitable purposes as in England, and yet no country - affords the sad spectacle of so many juvenile offenders whom ignorance anti hunger familiarize with crime. It would be well if a large portion of the funds that are employed on spe' culative plans of benevolence were applied to the relief and improvement of those destitute children who, like the young culprit at the Mansion-house, live in brick fields and such places, as desolate in the midst of this crowded metropolis as if no tie ever existed between them and human kind. If the mode of preventing crimes were better understood among us, there would be a less indiscriminate and revolting use of cruel or sanguinary punishments.—Morning Herald. The information which we have received from al most every quarter of Great Britain and Ireland has enabled us to make up the following impartial state mem of the results of the harve s t in the United -King dom. Time particulars must be peculiarly interesting sat the present moment. The Wheat crop, being less liable to injury from drought than most other species of produce, has suffered less, undoubtedly, in all parts, than the other descriptions of grain. In some particular counties the crop of Wheat may be consi dered a full. average, but in many quarters it can scarcely be estimated at more than a very moderate average, having been forced by the heat into a prema ture ripenesS, which diminish e d it s quant i ty as muc h as it added to the excellence of its quality and condition. —Though Barley is said in some districts to be a good crop, we cannot assert upon time whole, judging front the cOncurrent testimonies received from most of the counties, that the crop exceeds two-thirds of the usual average, but the quality has every ap zarance of proving excellent. As to . the crop of Oats, the accounts, we are sorry to say, are of a very different nature. This species of produce has everywhere sustained the Most severe injury from the weather. The straw was often so short that it was found extremely difficult in many cases to • reap them. ' Even according to the most favourable accounts, it is impossible to Suppose that the crop in Great Britain exceeds half the average. - The South - of 'reland is the only district in which this crop has' been in any degree . productive, and time exportation from that quarter is expected to equal that of last year. The quality of the Oats is in general good ; but the ear has not been so heavy as usual. The prospect in, the case of Beans and Peas is not lesS discouraging. The crop of these is every where considered extremely deficient. In sonic counties they will not pay the ex penses of cultivation, the crops having been entirely ruined.. 'Potatoes, in the early part of the season, were deficient in quantity, and inferior in quality ; but the rains latte r ly h ave produced a benefici a l ,effect, and the general results in this article will probably in some degree falsify our gloomy rantieipations. Two of the articles on which the price of butehers' meat must always in a great measure depend (bay and turnips) are both very deficient crops. Flay will scarcely reach half its usual average in point of quantity. Though in good condition, the want of moisture, and its pre ' Mature ripeness, have tended considerably to deterio rate its quality. This circumstance may at first induce finners to sell their cattle at a lower rate, especially in winter; but it would certainly tend in time end, if not counteracted, to increase the present prices of butchers' meat. Besides all th ese unfavourable circumstances, we learn that the stock of foreign grain on hand is small, and that the importation from Ireland had been Considerably less than usual.—Brilish Press. LONGEVITY.It has been a custom with Mr. Thomas Perks, ofthe Lye Waste, for the last ?0 years, to invite every year all the poor widows .of the neigh bourhood, wh o a re u p war d s of 60 years of age, to a feast. At the last, which took place, on Thursday, the sth inst., there were twelve widows present, whose ages amounted to nue thousand years.—Pottery Mercury. MONi EXTRAORDINARY FACT.--A piece or iron two inches and three quarters long, and two ounces and a half in weight, (the breech of a musket that, burst h) discharging it) was lately extracted 44 , our Infirmary, from the eye of a poor man, named Robert Peters, a small farmer residing at Leeswood near Mold, in Flintahire, after having endured the met exeruciatirg pain for a period offonr years and ten ynaritles, during tehich time it remained in his load .!—Chester Paper. CHAR" °V MunnErt An inquest was held on Alonday morning, at the I.o :— b t public-house, in Toad lane, Manchester, ca t h e an i, Alice Attlebury, otherwise Greenhai n g t i o i, n a l.t w igo,n _t r it , t ( c l y o l ; ) t f lte town, who died early on Saturday been most brutally bv ° Z equence d having The inquest was adjourned to Thurnalden in the street. ay next. Th. prisoners in the mean time remain in chafer Paper. In.addition to the various means designed to incul cato religious knowledge, a gentleman of Maltatotlinlutaas invented a Travelling i p u lpit, and at the, lad visitation of the clergy there, applied to hav e i t licensed ; but as no idea of such a vehicle had ever entered the contemplation of any of our legivlutors, spiritual or temporal, the applicant was refused.—Th e discoverer of the travelling pulpit, however, by another slight exertion of his intellect, discovered also that it would travel as well without a licence as with one, and it now sets on' regularly every Sunday morning at six delock, from the house of the inventor, with a number o f preachers, who hold. forth in turns to numerous co ngregations at the villages they visit ; a dozen villages are thus supplied on lin same day by one pulpit. This is religious econotuye-.Brighton Gazette. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOLTSE.—A. gentleman was brought before the Loan 11.1AVOA, charged by the street-keeper of Cornhill, with .having, in a fit of intoxication, endangered his own life. Taylor, the street-keeper, stated that on the previous evening, as he was walking along his beat, he saw the gentleman following a hackney-A:ninth, as if with. the intention of getting the number of it. Warms called out to the coachman to stop, hut he whip ped on his horsel, although the gentleman took hold of the reins and was in great danger of being run over. The coachman, who attended for the purpose of levying a con tribution upon the Unhappy defendant, stood forward, and said that he had important evidence to give. He had, he assured the Lord Mayor, been very badly treated indeed. Taylor.-1 assure your Lordship that this coachman acted in the most brutal manner •on • this occasion. He Whipped the gentleman several times, notwithstanding my interference as an officer, and even struck him as hard as he could with the butt-end of the whip. The coachman. loudly declared that there was no truth in this statement. lle had been most desperately abused by the prisoner. This was said in a tone awl with gesticulations which confirmed the statement that the fellow had conducted himself in the most ruffianly manner when be had it all in his own way, The Loan 11firoa..—Do not dare to call the gentleman a pri soner—you ought to stand Were me as a prisoner. Coachman.-1! . why, my Lord, I came here to be illuminated (remunerated) for my loss. tell you how it all was, my .Lord. Let me be sworn—give me the book. The Loan noel - rear you as a witness. Here a person of respectable appearance stood forward, and said, that the street-keeper's statement was perfectly accurate. The gentleman would, were it not for Taylor's interference, pro bably have been run over, as he wus altogether unable to take care of himself.. The Lunn AlAyou.—Ncni, Coachman, 111 hear your de fence. Coachman.—Vy, your Lordship, you see I had a fare. As I was driving easy along the street, this here prisoner came up, and he took and broke the glass of my coach, and he stopped my horses, and I might a broke my neck. So I says,-let go the reins, master, and he would'ot do no such a thing. So I just touched him with my lash ; but I never, so held me God, attempted to touch him with the butt end ; and now I expects to be paid for my glass and my litre, what I have lost, and my day too, by this here prisoner. Street-Keeper.—My Lord, he struck the gentleman in the most brutal manner, even when I held the latter; and he knew that I was an officer all the time. The LORD MAYnn asked the person who had caused all this disturbance, by his inebriety, what he had to say. He replied, that he had taken too much wine, and that, as he was crossing the street, the coachman, who was driving fu. rimitily, struck him with his whip , and repeated the blow fre quently, when he seized the reins in order to get the number of the coach. • The LORD MA - Yon.—lt is evident that you were in a disgrace ful condition, Sir. Indeed, I can no more take your evidence as to the occasion, than I can that of this coachman. I shall fine you 51. for being drunk. The Coachman,—;••Your Lordship, I hope I am nut to be with out . my " illumination!" _ The LORD MATOR.—No ; you shall pay those two men who have lost their clay by attending here to represent your conduct, or you shall find bail. This decision gave the greatest satisfaction. The coachman, who called himself Mr. Bejor, went away, after following the ad-, vice, d---g his eyes. The LAD MAYOR very highly commended the behaviour of of the street-keeper upon the occasion. BOW-STREET.--If every company were as well and as ably represented as the Thames Watermen are by their legal advocate and adviser, George . Beath, one of their body, it would be well for them. His knowledge of law, and his unwearied exertions in en forcing the regulations of the river Thames, have caused hie name to be held in reverence, and sometimes in dread, by his brethren of the scull and piddle. George is an orator of no mean pretensions, and from long practice he is a thorough adept in the art of special pleading. From his repeated appearances at this office, his knowledge of law, and his inflexible rigour in prosecuting to con • viction every case in which the rights of his brethren are at stake, he has received the title of the Aquatic Attorney-General, a name in which he justly glories, seeing that for more than 40 years he has fought the battles of the Thames watermen, defended their rights and privileges, and mooted points of law with almost every Magistrate, who, during that long period, has had control on the river between. Gravesend anti Windsor. lie never appears in the capacity of prosecutor without holding ,its bin band the identical act of Parliament under which he means to press for a conviction, and ir another be quoted, he can repeat Icy heart the several clauses and sections that bear upon the case, either directly. or indirectly. He 'boasts in having, dur ing hie long practice, achieved many signal triumphs, among the number of which, he refers, with no small degree of satisfaction, to his defeat of Sir Francis Ommaney, who once summoned a waterman to Bow-street for mending hie boat on a Sunday, dis turbing the rest of the worthy knight, by the sound of a hammer under his bed-room window, that happened to over-look the Thames. The man Was accordingly summoned, and Sir Francis attended in pertain to press the charge, hut George Heath was there also, and it was remarked that his face on that. morning wore an unusual share of sagacity and impqrtanee, for he well knew that this was no every day occasion, and that he had to contend with a great man, and a senator to hoot. There was no mark of fear, however, about him ; on the contrary, it was said bY,those who knew hint best, that he tried to conceal, under an, assumed seriousness of gesture, the triumph 'he anticipated and afterwards enjoyed. We think it unnecessary to repeat the proceedings of that day, or to dwell upon the opening and concluding addresses of the Aquatic Attorney-General, Who was so unusually eloquent and impressive on this occasion, that he deprived, it is said, his tfon. opponent of the means of replying, notwithstanding his long experience in a higher school of oratory. Suffice it to say, that the Honourable com plainant was completely posed, and finally cast with coats, the opposing counsel having proved that the' work at which his client was employed, was one of necessity, and therefore not punishable, although executed on the Sabbath, as the boat would have sunk in another hour, if a hole in her bottom had not been discovered and repaired in time. It is said, that the triumph of George Heath was so great at .hearing the Ilfagistrates's decision in favour of his client, that in the ardour of the moment he forgot himself so far, as to read to Sir Francis a brief and pithy lecture nn No hauling up' hard-working men before their worships, with a view to get them fined for committing so other offence than dis turbing his morning's nap. Having thus introduced our readers to the Aquatic Attorney-General, and given them a peep into his by-gone history, we have to announce his appearance yesterday at this Office, when Jatuu GOMM!, a lightertnen and waternian, was bUIIIIIIOIICI for buf f ering his son, who was hie apprentice, to ply a boat for hire on the Thames, tho said apprentice not having attained to the age of 16 years. _ George Beath, who appeared as the prosecutor, produced an act of William and Mary, prohibiting apprentiCes from taking fares on the river Thames until they had attained their 16th year; the penalty fOr such offence being 10a. The prosecutor stated that his sole object was to enforce the regulations of the river. The defendant pleaded that he was disabled from rowingln con sequence of having nearly lost the use of his hands, and he merely directed his smut) take a fare in his stead. , Mr. Aft Nauru, on referring to the Act of Parliament, found that it was imperative, and therefore ordered the defendant to pay 10.., which he did with considerable reluctance. " It is fur principle I contend in this instance, your Worship," said George Heath, " as well as in every other I have engaged in. I have no animosity to this man, and would undertake his cause to-morrow with all my heart and soul, if I could do so consist ently with the welfare of our body at large, .whose rights and pri vileges I tun determined to maintain as long as -I live." He then took off his spectacles, folded up the Act of Parliatnent on which he had obtained his conviction, and left the. office, taking care, however, to pocket th• half of the fine as a fee for maintaining the rights of his brethren. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday C. 7.ZWhhit in custody nn a charg e o f wilf u lly se ttin g fi re to his dwelling-house. . it t r, l l ,, 6 t h ilo } 4 li i t is f t f ra ol te bo , r f n o , r was as mid aga e i x n al b n iv i z t l i l o t ri be . fore Str Cr. An- Mr. Atiolphue, with Mr. Blunt,- the 'solicitor, as before, at tended for th e pr i soner, and Mr. Alley, with Mr. Turtaer,.th solicitor, for the parish of St. (like, appeared to support the pro eectation, The allies was, as on each of the former occasions, riowdad aboard to suffixation. The first witneBB examined was the boy Daniel Langles, of whom, absence Mr. Alley complained the day before. This wit ue", et very 4nUtt't, intelligent, and genteel-looking youth, about fifteen years of age, gave his evidence with a very marked and evi dently well-m[o4am caution. Being sworn, he stated, that be had lived its slu,p-boy in the eet.vice of the prisoner about a fort night before the second fire that happened at the prisoner'', house on the morning of th e I Rth of September. About four o'clock on that morning, he ryas awoke! 1 1 the maidservant, Catherine Tay lor, who was the only pervert besides himself in the house that night, as Mr. and Mrs. White . had slept for some nights previous 1 at Kentish-town. When the servant awoke him, she raid there was a very odd smell, as if of smoke ; he got out of bed and pro ceeded down titans, when he found the window of the landing place open and the sub op, although it had been dosed on going to bed at night, but not barred inside. Mr. Alley asked the tvitness why this window was not secured inside ?—He replied that he did not know ; it was the Servant, and hot himself, that dosed the doors and windows on going to bed. Catherine Taylor was here called, And said, that all the other windows but this one she had in the lianal way secured inside on the night in question ; but the , bar'which fastened this window had by some means or - other - been broken some days before ; and Mr. White threw the broken bar away until another could be put on. To a question from Mr. Alley she replied, that Mr. White was quite aware that this window was not secured. The boy Langles resumed his evidence, and said that on pro ceeding down to the ground Hour, he saw light shining under the door of the psrlour, which was locked; he told Catherine Taylor of the light he had seen, but she said it must be the moon-beams; ►but un h er coming down stairs herself, she agreed with him that they were no moon-beams. but fire-light. Mr. Adolphus-•—s' I left my lore to look on the_ bright moon beams." Witness and Catherine Taylor then got the key, and unlocked the parlour-door, when they saw a part of the floor on fire. Wit ness immediately gave an alarm to the watchman,. who came in and extinguished the flame with a pail of water. There had not been any fire in the grate of this parlour in which Mr. White always sat. There was an iron safe in the room, in which Mr. White used to keep his money. Witness reollects seeing a great bottle of turpentine in a cupboard in this parlour, the day before the fire, but he knew not what became of it after. About six o'clock in the morning, after the fire had been extinguished, wit ness went out to Kentish Town, where Mr. White slept, to in form him that the house had been on fire. When he arrived there, he went up to Mr. White's bed-room, and told him of the fire in the parlour ; but that it had been put out. Mr. White said, " Poh ! poh ! nonsense ; I will not believe there was any tire." Witness said, " that if he would not believe it, he could. not help it," and returned to town again ; but before he left he heard Mrs. White tell the prisoner that he ought to go into town; and he replied, " that he would in a few minutes." When' wit ness returned to the house in Holborn, he told Catherine that Mr. White would not believe about the fire, upon which she set of to Kentish Town to convince him on the subject, and alma ten o'clock Mr. White arrived at home.—This 'was the whole of this youth's evidence, during which he scarcely ever gave an answer to a question that lie did not exchange a most significant look with the prisoner, and so remarkable was this, that Plank, the chief officer, privately directed a person to stand so as to interrupt their view of each other. The next witness was Godfrey Lazarus, jeweller and general dealer, residing at No. 3, Rutland-street, Commercial-road. Mr. Lazarus stated, that he had, with his wife, his sister, and his grandmother lodged at the prisoner's house for shove a year before the first fire on the sth of Aegust. On the night of that fire the witness and his family went to bed about eleven o'clock ; and about one o'clock the witness was awoke by an impression, caused he supposed by a dream, that there was a person standing by his bed side, and pressing very heavily upon him ; but on his looking about he could ace nobody, and he went to sleep again ; he had, however, scarcely fallen asleep when he was again awakened by a smothering, suffocating smell of smoke in the room ; he immedi ately got out of bed, and called up all the members of his family, and at the same time gave a general alarm in the house. Having got his family together, he proceeded with them down stairs into the passage, opened a glass door, and unlocked the street door, at which the watchman was then ringing, and got out of the house. After lodging his family in safety at the house of a friend in Little Turnstile, he returned to the prisoner's house, when he learned that the fire had originated in a Onset under the kitchen staircase, but it had been then ex. tinguished by Furzman, the constable ; witness was surprise," at meeting Mr. White in the • passage laughing at the confusion, and witness could not help . observing to him that he tht.aght it no matter to laugh at. Mr. White then said that he had no doubt but it was Margaret DreW, his (Mr. Lazarus's) servant, who had set the house on tire, and advised him to charge her on suspicion, and he did accordingly, by the desire of Mr. White, give her into the custody of Furzman, and charged her at the watch house; but he had scarcely done this when Mr. White turned round and said that he would advise him not to proceed any far ther against her. The next day, when she was brought to this office, Mr. White expressed his determination to prosecute the girl to the uttermost, as he was sure, he said, she was the incendiary the consequence was, that the poor girl was remanded on the charge of arson, but on the second examination the Magistrate did not think the eireon l et a n eeN of unviitiOnl were strong enough to detain her on that ()lnge, but she was committed fur trial on *nuttier charge, of stealing some trifling article, of which she was subsequently acquitted at the Old Bailey. The day after this fire Mr. White quitted the house, and•went on a visit, as be said, for some days to his mother, who resides.at Fulham, and in a most unlaudlord and ungentlemanlike manner, the witness said, left his (Mr. Lazarus's) family alone hi the house, after such an alarming circumstance as a fire. The whole business, however, the wit ness said, appeared so mysterious and extraordinary, that in three days after he moved his family altogether away from the place. Mr. ALLILY-..4 now ask you, Mr. Lazarus, upon your oath, did you set fire to the house? . Mr. Lazarus, with the utmost asto nishment—Me set fire to the house ! On my oath, I did not. Mr. ALLEY—It seems an odd question; but my reason for ask ing it is, that persons, for certain purposes, have been very busy in throwing out hints. • Julia Lazarus, the wife of the las, witness, was next examined, and gave the same history of the alarm of fire, and escape from the house, as her husband did, and added, that on the night before the fire happened, she observed, for the first time she had been in the house, a ladder that usually stood near the kitchen,- at the bottom Of the house, placed against the trap-door, leading out on the roof of the house. This struck her at the time as a very singular eh cumstance, and alarmed her so much, that she said she would not sleep another night in the house unless it were removed. 'the buy Langlea here called out, without being at all questioned on the subject, " Itwas I that placed the ladder there;" 11h. ALLEY told him to be silent until he was desired to speak ; he waa too zealous by half. Catherine Taylor, a fine, healthy, blooming ; looking girl, and the most correct and satisfactory witness that haa been examined in the whole of this investigation, was called on to explain about thia ladder, as indeed she was to explain every thing confused, that appeared in the whole proceedings. She said that she did not actually see the ladder taken up stairs from the lower part of the house, which certainly was its proper place ; but she under stood, as well as she could recollect, from Mr. White himself, that he ordered the-boy Langles to take the ladder up and go out by it.' through the trap-door, for something that he wanted from the roof of the house. _ _ One of the beadles of St. Giles 's parish produced the piece of burned link s which be said he found in a flame between the lath and plaster of the closet under the staircase that was on tire, and in Mr. Lazarus's kitchen he traced from the - fire-place drops of melted pitch along the floor to where the fire broke out ; there was a cupboard in this kitchen which was locked, but Mr. Lazarus opened it, and showed him that it contained nothing but the utensils used by Jewish families during the feast of the Peas. over, end in fact that the cupboard was never opened more than twice in the year, The kitcheinfietrby s itir. White himself, wit nesse said, was out in the yard detached from the house. The next witness was Mr. Edward Gore, draper and tailor, re siding at N o . 269, High Holb o rn. H e ;dated that he had been alarmed by a ll t h e f i res at the risoner's house, and had gone to view the pr e mi ses on each °coition. From the beginning he had p a strong impression that all was uot right; but on the occasion of the last tire, witness saw too much to satiety him that the fire did not arise from tiny accident, hut the most premeditated design ; that part of the floor that was on fire he clearly saw had been rubbed all over with some strong oonahustible matter, as the hoards were burned in a circular farm, confined to the space that had been rubbed, and from this the flames caught the wainscot elose to tho spot, a good part of which was burned, and when as attempt was made to break up the floor with it pole-axe, the boards came off without scarcely any force, and they evidently had been before moved for some purpose, and not nailed down again, and the joists under them were nearly burned through. The witness here conceived himself to have received some in.. terruption from Air. Blunt, the prisoner's solicitor, who stood . opposite to him, and with much warmth 'called out to him— '4 You may threaten, sir, hut I will speak the truth. You may. threaten to 'bring your actions; hut 'you shall not intimidate tire. You may threaten, as Mr. Harmer" dots, to bring actions about mail-coach robbers ; but you shall not prevent me from speaking the truth." • Alley.--Do you mean to say that the prisoner's aolicitur threatened to bring an action against you AS one of the Witneases fur the prosecution ?...—Yes, air, he did. " Then," said Mr. All ey, " I would advise you to apply to the Court of King's Bench ag a i nst him, " Gore.—So I will, s i r. Mr. Lazarus here said, that Mr. Blunt had also threatened him and Mr‘ Bradford, the oil and colour-man with actions. Mr. Blunt said; that he had never written any letter to Mr. G or e, threatening him with sizi akin. Mr. Lazarus.—But you wrote . a letter to me, threat en i ng action,' and I have:got your letter hi my pocket. Mr. 00re......And you threatened me the other day ht this office. Mr. Adolphus (to Mr. Gore)—You said just now that ha threatened you as a witness for the prof,:ecution. Mr. Gore.--- Yes; and I say so again, Mr. Adolphus; I am not to,be intimi dated by you either. • Mr. Adolphus.—Why, man, you seem to put yourself 'in a great passion about nothing. Mr. Gere.—l . am sorry then that I am so far like you sometimes. Mr. Adolphus.—Come, Sir, give me none of your imperti nence ; clear your fool's head and give me an answer to my ques tion, if you can. Mr. Gore.—l will clear my fool's head if you will give me some of your ointment. Mr. Adolphus—l am not in the habit of keeping up a dialogue with tailors. . Mr. Alley—Pray don't be angry, Mr. Adolphus. Mr. Adolphus—Angry! I an) not in the least angry. Well now, Mr. Tailor, tell me have you ever beeri examined as a witness before ?—Mr. Gore Yes, I have, and by you, Sir. Mr. Adolphus—l' don't mean that. Have you ever been exa mined, I say, in this case, before to-day, as a witness ?—Mr. Gore—No, I have not. Mr. Adolphus—Then bow could you he a witness for the pro. secution at the time you say Mr. Blunt threatened you with an action. Mr. Alley—He was undoubtedly a witness for the prosecution, and Mr. Blunt has behaved in a highly improper manner. Mr. Adolphus—l think be has behaved in a very proper man ner; he was quite right to threaten tho►e with actions who were, as be learned, circulating calumnies against his client. Mr. Alley—Now, Mr. Gore, I ask you, had you ever any con versation with Mrs. White in the presence of her husband, the prisoner, on the subject of these fires at his house ?-41r. Gore. Yes, I had. Mr. Alley—Be so good as tell me the nature of that converse tion, or of any communication Mrs. White made to you on the subject in the presence of the prisoner. Mr. Gore (slapping his hand with great vehemence upon the table before him.)- 4 ‘ By G—d I will not. I never will to the last hour of my existence tell what communication she made to me." Mr. Alley—What may have been told to you in confidence, it is a very correctleeling in you to conceal, if you can be justified in doing so ; but it is my duty, in forwarding the ends of justice, to require you to answer my question. Mr. Gore (with renewed vehemence)—" Then by G—d I will not, You may send me to prison, if you please ; but while I have breath in my body, I never will divulge whatever Mrs. White communicated to ate in confidence. She was in a fainting state ; and when I found her so at the top of the house, I made her take a little brandy and water to relieve her, and after com municating something to ins in the presence of her husband, she went on her knees, and, with her eyes streaming with tears, she entreated me never to divulge it. I promised her with my hand on my heart that I never would, and so help me God I never will for any power on earth." _ _ Alley.—l am, and so are you, placed in a very awkward situation. It is my- duty to press for an answer, and yet under such circumstances I do not like to (h) Sir GZORGE FAnnArr.r.—You know, Mr. Gore, you have just been sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing hut the truth. Now, as you have sworn to tell the whole truth, I (lo not see how yOu can avoid answering Mr. Alley's question. " Then by G—d, Air George," said Mr. Gore, at the same moment bursting into a flood of tears, " I never will answer it, be the consequences, here or hereafter, what they may." Mr. ALLEv—I shall not press you further at present on the subject, Mr. Gore. Mr. ALLAY then said that he had closed his cue ; he had no further witnesses to examine. The witnesses were then all bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner fully committed for trial. When Mr. Gore was called upon to sign his deposition, after taking the pen in his hand be dashed it on the table, and said be would not sign, it. Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chief clerk, told him that his signing was a mere matter of form, and it was of no consequence.whether he signed or not as regarded the validity of his depositions. Mr. Gore then signed his name, but said, "Where is the use of my signing? for I tell you plainly that I will forfeit my recog nizance, and never appear on the trial." Mr. Adolphus applied to have the prisoner admitted to bail under the power vested in magistrates in cases of felony, but Mr. Alley resisted the application, and Sir George Fervent said that as the sessions were so near at hand, the point was not much worth going into any discussion upon ; he should certainly com mit the prisoner lhr the present to the New Prison, Clerkenwell, tined tl:e removal day, to be sent then to Newgate. The prisoner's demeanour, for a person in his altruist 'perilotis 141 uation, was by no meanie creditable to hint yesterday: During the whole of Mr. Lararus's evidence he could only suppress laugh ter by stuffing hit handkerchief to his mouth, and that but ill concealed it; and while every body, almost, in the office besides, was sensibly affected by the stern virtue and intensely suffering feel ings of Mr. Gore, the prisoner stood unmoved, and looked upon the passing scene with the most cool and perfect indifference. He was dressed in a blue coat and trousers, and black waistcoat, is a very young man, and has very light hair and complexion. Before the prisoner retired with the gaoler from the office, Mr. Adolphus said to him" Mr. White, don't alarm yourself; your case is perfectly well understood ; your defence will appear in due time : at present: it is all behind the curtain." Mr. White-... 1 thank you; Sir. MARYLEBONE-OPPlCE.—Yesterday John Rudy, a very young man, and James Wilk., a lad, 18 years of age, were charged with robbing Turner's Pinner and Harrow coach. Hannah Hartley, an outside passenger, stated, that on Wednes day, as she was in the dicky, she saw Reedy take a bag from the coach, and Wilka was assisting him, in consequence of which she demired the coachman to stop.—Comut4ted for trial. THAMES-POLICE OFFlCE.—Santue/ Banks, a mate of an Indianian, fashionably dressed, and about 32 years of age, was put to the bar, charged with committi ng , a rape upon Miss Dottield, a hi ghly respectable maiden lady; about 45 years of age, the, joint . proprietress of a respectable seminary for young ladies in the Commercial-road. . Miss Duffield, ac companied by Miss Spencer, her partner, and another lady, entered the office; such was the mental anguish which seemed to oppress her, that she was quite unable to support herself. Mr. BAI.LANTINZ humanely ordered ber to be accommodated with a chair. He then requested , her to eompuse herself, and afterwards to state the circumstances of this melancholy transaction. It was with the utmost difficulty that Mr. BaHelaine was able to obtain the following particulars:—She stated, that she has known the prisoner for many years, ever since his earliest boyhood ; they were both from the village of Massineam, in Norfolk, and the closest habits of intimacy subsisted between their families ; she and Miss Spencer.keep a Lady's School in the Commercial -road, an d hav e done so for, several years past; the , prisoner, about ten days ago arrived from India, and 'immediately called upon them. lie asked her' could they accommodate him with an apartment in their house; they having 'a spare one, they agreed to do so, perfectly happy to have it in• their power to oblige . a person she ,had known so long, and for whom she bad had such a high esteem, and whose foriner conduct to wards her was auch, that s h e always lo o k e d upon h i m ini i re -i n the light of a sincere friend and- beloved brother• than any thing .else. She said that on Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, the prisoner returned home, and, after taking supper, he inquired where wes.Mias Spencer. She replied, that she was gone to spend the day at a friend's, and would not return that night. She then ohaervcd to prisoner, that it was time to retire ; to which he assented, and she took the candle for the purpose of lighting him up stairs, as she had been in the habit of doing ; and being apprehenalie of lire, she always placed the candle upon the mantel piece in the room, lest, through negligence, any accident might occur. Having d one so , on h er w i shing pr i soner goo d n ight, a s usual, be, seisedher by the arm, a n d d r agged bar towards the bed ; she becam e alarmed; mud asked hi m whathe meant; he made her no answer, bat th rew h er on t h e b e d. object was, she begged, she entreated, she made every appeal but all in rain: he which humanity or ilium* could suggest, fallen on the no matter what might be swore he would accomplish his Pillow and endeavoured to cover her head, having the meetpienesa. She then screamed oat; - he instantly took the , p , uatt and swore w nto ore h h er . mouth, would smother her. The pillow in r the I ) " , he took a t of the sheet par s h e , got rid of. He then tare which, by an effort of her arm, round- her neck , - and f a silk handkerchief which she wortchoked Ter; and creed it into her mouth, which had . ' "ee h r e Y r in the most brutal after de taining her an hour, an d treating her the, house, and manner went to ker possible, she malted from bins , friends. said be was well swans how repugnant it Mr. Ha 1,1,A NTIN le , and of her delicacy education to state further ' must ho to a person than what A c hed already done, bit shemust he more per fects titular in the office.)' distress of Miss Duffild, in the greatest mind, and bursting into _ 4 t e a t s, was unable to proceed, except to se that she y an spay w • I most brutally. bad been -Newt . Data,* KTINF said, he should take further particulars from 11r. itmedical gen tl eman , and requested • that Miss Du ffi eld shOuld have i i n terview with one; hut before she-should do so , he begged to purpose, she saw what his ask her one question, whether the prisoner had ever was any overtures to her in the character of an admirer? Miss , Duffield solemnly protested that he never had ; apd know ing him as she did from his childhood, she never considered hint any other than as a brother, and in the plenitude other confidence in that character, she admitted him to lodge in her house. Mr. BALLawrinz inquired whether there were nu persons in the house at the time of the outrage who might have beard her cries ? Miss Duffield replied that the kitchen was so remote that it was impossible to boar her, as she was nearly smothered, and she believed the servants were out ; there were three children in bed above stairs. The medical gentleman having been sent for, and having had an interview with Miss Duffield, his evidence was taken in private, but be could not positively say that the capital offence had been per petrated. Yet he declared she had suffered the most brutal in dignity he had ever witnessed. Mr. BALLANTINE asked the prisoner what he could lay for hiMself? The prisoner, with the most puppyish affectatiou of farrow, aid upon his honour he Avas sorry, very sorry indeed, for what had oc curred ; he must have been intoxicated. Mr. BALLA?. MX --Take the fellow out;' I shall hold him to bail fur the assault, himself in 1,0001., And two sureties in SOW. cads ; Miss Duffield 111 bind over in SODt to prosecute, andliliss Spencer in 501. to give evidence; and alio the medical gentleman in 501. All parties were then bound ever, and the prisoner was locked up until he should procure bail. Several highly respectable gentlemen from the rusighbonthog of the Commercial-road attended, and having expressed the greatest indignation at the manner in which the unfortunate lady had been treated, declared that females of more unblemished character, than Miss Duffield and Miss Spencer did not exist. UNION-HALL,—,Yesterday a gentlemanly looking man at tended before the sitting magistrate, J. S. CALown.L, Esq., for the purpose of plaiting the following application. Applicant (addressing the magistrate.)—l called here to apply for a warrant against my wife, who has absconded from her bong without any just cause. Mr. CaLpwcri. (with some surf) ifie. 'sir, you must be aware that I bl a i l o :( l i tliiii l lyi c i lkco n rde o oini t ithitru be itliftil j ute u els s dt t oi i on ti ann v . ii has i e n sap c ot o lil m : ti p u ly pan i o n nd g with sa:du: y 4th o , u ive r ni r: ii - t w qu o ei l t pd . plhaican l v i e iu t l ble t vt l ,al i n e submission to your Worship, I am of opinion that the law w" 1 " justify you in issuing a warrant for the apprehension of a woman that I strongly suspect is running in debt. with various tradesmeoJ all of which debts will some down plump upon me by and by." The Magistrate said, that the applicant appeared to have formed a very erroneous notion of the law of the case. Applicant—All I want, Sir, is to recover possession of my wife, as I know it will be the only means of keeping me out or prison, and, in the end, of saving her from destruction--perhsp q drowning or hanging. The Magistrate said, that he lamented he could he of no as sistance to him ; but he would recommend him, if his wife was an extravagant woman, and that he was fearful she would ran him into debt, to put an advertisement in the newspaper*. • _ The gentleman then retired, thanking the magistrate for lu advice. --- --- ACCIDENT at the TWOPENNY-POST-OFFICE . On Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, the immediate neighbourhood of the Post-office, Lombard-street, was thrown into the greatest alarm in consequence of aloud immediately conjectured that a n ex p losion °Utile gas had taken place, but this supposit ion p ro rfaerplovratrdperdocbeyeditrhige frTowmo_thpeenon ffi rcpose we at t a h m e trad lett . ers l t t o be was proved unfounded, the report having proceeded from quite a different cause, and a more shameful transaction than that which lid to the ac cident we are now about to relate has not been made pub lic for some time. The folloWing are the particulars :--It appears that a man named Westbrook, one of the letter stampers at the Twopenny-post-office, was, as usual, hisrk ing the letters previous to tLeic being despatched from the office to their r " various destinations , . and be had nst ,l "fi been at his post, ere a loud report equal to that of a a," cannon, completely paralysed all the officers of the establien. ment, and the gas was rtially blown out. This wa s oc casioned by a letter haviugbeen put into the Post-office 'Ogled with detonatingpowder. The stamp being thrust letter by Westbrook, immediately exploded, and his, rig h! ' hand was nearly blown to pieces. The nails On each Mila were all blown o ff , as • well as most of • the fl esh' u . k t f a the knuckle. The right hand presented a horrid sig ht tae,...,,w —h of the 3d, 4th, and of the little finger, was sev ered' bone_ which was fractured in many places. The " es i Li,, ii d the right arm up the elbow was torn in numerous P — ' and the poor man's face and neck was also severe All scorched. Another man, named Sadler, who was ' Wu. were ing next to Westbrook, taking the letters as they oplo. stamped, was blown down by the violence of the 'ion, and his face very much disfigured. A third pas° also had his hand much burnt. The table on which the letters, are stamped, such was the force of the powder ens c i is left for detec .upon the tamed in the letter, was completely...broken through, e n , many of the letters destroyed. . The letter contairiieg w e powder was of course immediately consumed, and no tra ce immediately to the Mail Coach public-house, in Sherborne ting the author. Westbron Eo k ez ‘ i t , ' h as ;e t r e . k a e .. " . lane, and medical advice procured. The wounds are rather dangerous, and the medical advisers feared it would be_n t S; must have been excessive . Poultices p cc a a in aa e ry nd t a o re re d s , or a t a t .th o eamhpanutdastiboeniaogf thrust e ust right hand. in after the wounds had been 'washed, and. the poor ma n This as soon as practicable, be removed to his own W ee * scandalous transaction will, no doubt, be sifted to the bottom, and a reward o ff ered for the detection of those who have 1 bee i thus risked human life ; for, had Nirestbrook's face sufficiently near, the explosion would inevitably bees killed . g the The following are further particulars concern'L l he above accident.:—lt , has now been ascertaine d i t „ i i — ;d t ari letter containing the sulphate of silver, which exPs — fro m e chymical manufactory at' Woodford, in the stamp being, applied.. by Westbrook, was *e n ' ,„'" - Mr. wereintado em°ilndisvrteartel: Allen, a druggist, in Aldersgate-street. It is, not probable that any malicious intention was conte mn ed, as the word "glass" was written on the letter. 1 % 4 7 ; brook, up to a late hour last' night, was going 1 well; only thing now feared is an attack of the 10A - 0 - we The other individuals who were near the stamper In d s he n de em l dt • h ly bey r p e No co vwe v ds er etrb e i d Noova th sk e two s as h b o;:k floou :h vnl e id y , ireceived,tmit,od ahis and thei r are but small. Nut a vestige of the bottle .which esn tal ,„ has been. extracted without much difficulty. part ~, t i t ' ' - - MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY, MONDAY, OcY. 16. (At the Court of Commissioners.) a t 2 A. Ander-eon, Pltilpot-letle, merchant ..................... . .. I T. K. Clay, Coleman -str ee t, warehouseman, .......•...... 2 J. Moseley, King-street, Covent-garden, victualler........"'. COUNTRY DIARY, 31onnsv, OCT. 16. , a t If W. Birch, Thanet, at Mr.—Maaaitaea, s a ndwich ...... • . j T. and W. Jackson, Liverpool-41r. 13rabner's, Liverpool • • 11 A. Stock, Wigan—Mr. Gaskell's ' Wigan ..................... J. Stone, Manohnster—Rotel, Manohester ..................... ; J. Taylor, Ageeruft—Start Manchester ............. PIRT/IS. On the 11th inst., in Half-woon.etreet, the lady of r " d 0 r" Frederick Lockley, Esq., of a eon. a On. the I Ith bat., at Londhani !Lill, Suffolk, the led l Charles Devon, Esq., of a daughter. ---............--- MARRIED. to Novi, Y 6 u n g es daughter of Mr., Ebert, of Sussex-pkuv, Regent's Park. , On the 10th inst., at St. JohnisyWapping, Magnus Joholl' lateOnTt.heAilnitotalloirtmht., EsqW. Esq., to Miss Jane Turner, of Wapping. , H o . f A s i t navr anc o h e es th te , r E:q., eldest o f dot On the 11th just., Isabel Ba D Tel D ay . , wife , of the a*v• Forteseue, of G eorge Ni mpton an d Wear 0 va!, "ef second daughter of the lat e James Christie, Al On t h St to of I- Fifeshire, • esi' e h met ., Georg A George Garrard, Asti., .M.A., at r deenc,e, 4, Queen'te-builiroilin- ,....,... 00 Printed and Published I; a • u LING t the 1 4-oil lol4 Ifo. y 111. YO , 112, SIKAND. 104 p e st,